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Cyberassaults Throw Off
Online Brokerage Firms

By

Rebecca Buckman Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Feb. 10, 2000 12:01 a.m. ET

Can computer hackers slow the online-brokerage juggernaut?

That is what some investors wondered Wednesday after E*Trade Group , the nation's second-largest Internet broker, saw its Web site seized by the same type of cyberassaults that hit other major e-commerce sites this week. Charles Schwab , the No. 1 Web broker, also appeared to briefly have been affected, according to one consulting firm that monitors Web-site performance,...